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You can't buy a hybrid cloud as a product nor as a service, and even if you could you would need to customise it for your unique requirements and constraints. The reality today is you need to buy the ingredients from a supplier then roll your own hybrid cloud and to manage this you need to put in place a Hybrid Cloud Manifesto.

The SPC-2 benchmark is a useful benchmark for bandwidth intensive sequential workloads, such as backup, ETL (extraction, translate, load) and large-scale analytics. Wikibon does a deep comparative analysis of the SPC-2 results, time-adjusting the pricing information to correct for different publication dates. Wikibon then analyses performance and price-performance together, and develops a guide to enable practitioners to understand the business options and best strategic fit. Wikibon concludes the Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance dominates this high-bandwidth processing as of the best combination of good performance and great price performance at the high-end and mid-range of this market.

The thesis of the overall Wikibon research in this area is that within 2 years, the majority of IT installations will be moving to combine workloads together to share data using NAND flash as the only active storage media. This will save on IT budget and improve IT productivity, especially in the IT development function. Our research shows that these changes have the potential to reduce the typical IT budget by 34% over a five year period while delivering the same functionality to the business. The projected IT savings of moving to a shared-data all-flash datacenter for an organization with a $40M IT budget are $38M over 5 years, with an IRR of 246%, an annual ROI of 542%, and a breakeven of 13 months. Future research will look at the potential to maximize the contribution of IT to the business, and will conclude that IT budgets should increase to deliver historic improvements in internal productivity and increased business potential.

The Public Cloud market is still forming – but seems to be poised to soon enter the Early Majority stage of its development where user behavior, preferences, and strategies become more stable. Large enterprises are more discerning of Public Cloud IaaS offerings. Test and development appears to be a key entry point for them since scale, operational complexity, and security/compliance/regulatory demands require a more nuanced approach to Public Cloud for IaaS. Small and Medium enterprises have the greatest need for Public Cloud and should consider well-established, lower risk entry points to Public Cloud like SaaS, Email, and Web Applications before venturing into Mission Critical and IaaS workloads to help them navigate an increasingly complex and costly IT infrastructure environment.

5 Reasons Why Accel Partners Announced a $100 Million Big Data Fund

There are several reasons why the fund makes sense now. Here are five:

Consumerization. Accel Partners portfolio companies include companies such as Facebook and Dropbox. These are companies that are processing data on an unprecedented scale. Current database systems are unable to handle the massive scaling of unstructured data that these environments manage. Companies need ways to understand information in a different scope. What is the relationship of the user to her friends? What is the data you transferring online? Is it video, photos or standard documents? What is the mix?

The Data Analytics Ecosystem. The data analytics ecosystem of the past 20 years has spawned such companies as SAS, Teradata, Sybase and Autonomy. The next 20 years will see a new generation of companies that solve every day business problems in markets such as collaboration, security, CRM and any other field you can think of.

Picks and Shovels. Facebook is sexy but a new generation of tools are needed to extract unstructured data for such pruposes as business intelligence.

Improve Existing Tools. There is a need for new technologies but also tools to make existing practices better. There is a need for better integration.

Simplicity. Making sense of big data is still for the data scientist. There needs to be tools that everyone can use.

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The Accel fund is significant. It shows the importance of Hadoop and other big data tools to solve real-world problems. These are problems that service providers increasingly need.

About Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.